During which until sunrise
You, oh dawn, were visible to us!
Many dawns did not enlighten to the end.
Oh, give, Varuna, we shall dawn to the light of day.»
Here, the singer of the ancient Aryan anthem turns to the powerful lord of the heavenly ocean, the keeper of cosmic law and truth on earth God Varuna with a request to help survive the long thirty-day dawn and survive until the day. He is asking:
«Oh give us a long, dark night,
See your end, oh night!»
It is interesting that in the Vedas and in the Avesta, memories of the polar night, which lasts no more than 100 days a year, have been preserved. So in the Indian service there is a rite of reinforcing the warrior god and thunder Indra with the ritual drunken drink «Soma» during his struggle to free the sun from captivity, which lasts one hundred days. In the Avesta, priests also reinforce the warrior-god, the liberator of the sun, one hundred nights; it must be shown that the legend of the struggle to free the sun from long captivity, the idea of which could be inspired only by a polar night, is one of the leading Vedic mythologies.
So about Indra it is said that he «gave birth to the sun, the sky, the morning dawn» (R.V.I.32); «revealed darkness with the morning dawn, the sun» (R.V.I.62); «revealed the luminary for the aria» (R.V.II.11); made so that «the earth became visible to the sky» (R.V.II.12); he «stretched out the light through both worlds! He overthrew the darkness.» (P.V.II.17); «found in the darkness a great luminary» (R.V. II.31).
Indra is called the «invader of the sun that begets days» (R.V. II.34), it is said that he «lit the morning dawn, the sun lit, wishing» (R.V. II.44), thanks to him «through the blind, wild darkness became visible» (R.V. IV.16).
And since the end of winter comes with the end of the polar night, the snow melts, all nature comes to life, the rivers that have dropped ice make noise, Indra is the liberator of the sun, also called the «liberator of waters», and that with the liberation of the sun, with its return to heaven water is liberated, many hymns of the Rigveda and Avesta say. So, for example, it is alleged that «Iidra with the help of light took water out of the darkness,» «water flowed by his will» (R.V. I.33), he killed a snake, the waters protected by which «stood constrained,» he did «swollen rivers» (R.V.I, 32; II. II). One of the hymns dedicated to Indra says: